I’m in a festive mood today and would like to share a different side of Corsica through this video of Alizée, who was born and raised in Ajaccio, Corsica. The title of the song is “J’en ai Marre!” (I’m Fed Up in English). J’en ai Marre can also mean “I’ve Had it” or like my…
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Guardians of Human Memory
The slide show features several of Corsica’s main attractions and contains a sample of Corsica’s polyphonic music, a mesmerizing sound described by English writer Dorothy Carrington as “…a song from the depths of the earth, from the dawn of time”.
From Saint-Florent to Key West
This is the first in a series of posts about the connections between the U.S. and Corsica. Martello Towers get their name from Corsica’s Mortella tower in Saint-Florent, which during the Napoleonic Wars proved to be very hard to conquer. Earlier this year I discovered a blog called Key West Diary written by “Conchscooter”, a…
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